Update: Shahum reported that SFBC staffer Marc Caswell found a surveillance camera at an auto body shop which has footage of Le Moullac’s crash, even though SFPD has said no such footage could be found. More on that story later as it develops. San Francisco Police Sergeant Richard Ernst apparently decided that the best way to make Folsom Street safer was to purposefully park his car in the bike lane this morning and force bicycle commuters into motor traffic. Staff from the SF Bicycle Coalition were out at Folsom and Sixth Streets, handing out flyers calling for safety improvements on SoMa’s freeway-like streets in the wake of the death of Amelie Le Moullac, who was run over at the intersection last week by a truck driver who appeared to have made an illegal right-turn across the bike lane on to Sixth. When Ernst arrived on the scene, he didn’t express sympathy for Le Moullac and other victims, or show support for safety improvements. Instead, he illegally parked his cruiser in…Read More

Shahum was still visibly disturbed by the behavior of Sgt. Ernst more than an hour later. Steven T. Jones A memorial and informational event this morning at the 6th and Folsom corner where a bicyclist was fatally run over by a truck last week was marred by a tense and unsettling confrontation with an SFPD sergeant who showed up to block the…Read More

This is an incomplete list. To add to the list or provide feedback, please email me at patricktraughber at gmail. August 14th, 2013. A 24-year-old woman named Amelie Le Moullac was killed after being run over by a truck whose driver was making a right turn onto 6th Street from Folsom at 7:07am. She was killed while riding in an unprotected bike…Read More